stooden
English
Verb
stooden
- (dialectal, nonstandard) past participle of stand
- 1833, Walter Scott, “Epilogue to the Drama founded upon St Ronan's Well”, in The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, volume XI, page 373:
- But ye take care of a' folk's pantry; / And surely to hae stooden sentry […]
- 1886, “Willie o Winsberry”, in Francis James Child, editor, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, volume II, page 399:
- She's coosten off her berry-brown gown, / Stooden straight upo yon stone.
- 1904, John Venn, Annals of A Clerical Family, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 83:
- […] I could have stooden and heard 'm while morning.” Mr. Midward, aged seventy-eight, said.
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Anagrams
- snooted
Middle English
Verb
stooden
- Alternative form of stoden